1956 in the Soviet Union

← 1955 1954 1953 1956 in the Soviet Union → 1957 1958 1959
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1956 Timeline of Soviet history

The following lists events that happened during 1956 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Events

February

• 9 February - The report of the Pospelov Commission is presented to the presidium.
• 14-25 February - 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• 25 February - Nikita Khrushchev makes the speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences at the 20th Congress of the CPSU.

March

• March - 1956 Georgian demonstrations

October

• 19 October - Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956

November

• 4 November - United Nations Security Council Resolution 120 is passed.
• 7 November - The 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition leaves Kaliningrad
• 18 November - We will bury you is spoken by Nikita Khrushchev.
• 21 November - Soviet submarine M-200 is rammed and sunk by a Soviet destroyer, killing the submarine's crew.

Births

• 19 March - Yegor Gaidar, economist
• 6 May - Vladimir Lisin, obligarch
• 10 May - Vladislav Nikolayevich Listyev, journalist

Deaths

• 3 January - Alexander Gretchaninov, composer

References